SKU: MB.WBM58M
ISBN 9781736363058. 8.75x11.75 inches.
A comprehensive collection of 172 guitar solos for the flatpick or plectrum guitarist. All solos are written in standard notation with accompanying online recordings by the author. The solos include beautiful American, British and Celtic airs and ballads, Celtic dance tunes, lute and early music, popular classical repertoire and contemporary etudes. Includes access to online audio.
SKU: HL.1136474
ISBN 9781705183250. UPC: 196288113492. 9.0x12.0x0.237 inches.
This one-of-a-kind collection arranged by Fred Sokolow features accessible, must-know songs for anyone ready to start playing lap steel guitar, or any player wanting to expand their repertoire. Each song is presented in a combination of tab, standard notation, chords, and lyrics for the most popular songs lap steel players like to play. This collection features songs in several tunings, including open G, open E and C6, in these genres: country, Hawaiian, Western swing, rock/pop, folk, and blues. It also includes many transcriptions of solos by famous steel players. Songs include: Back in the Saddle Again â?¢ Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain â?¢ Can't Help Falling in Love â?¢ Crazy â?¢ Faded Love â?¢ Happy Trails â?¢ I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry â?¢ Mama Tried â?¢ (Ghost) Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend) â?¢ Together Again â?¢ Waikiki â?¢ Walkin' After Midnight â?¢ Won't You Ride in My Little Red Wagon â?¢ Your Cheatin' Heart â?¢ and more.
About First 50
You've been taking lessons, you've got a few chords under your belt, and you're ready to buy a songbook. Now what? Hal Leonard has the answers in its First 50 series. The First 50 series steers new players in the right direction. These books contain easy to intermediate arrangements for must-know songs. Each arrangement is simple and streamlined, yet still captures the essence of the tune.
SKU: M7.GHE-906
ISBN 9783890449067. English.
The third volume of four volumes of Llobet's masterful transcriptions for solo guitar. His transcription of the Tchaikovsky Mazurka Op. 40 no. 5 is a brilliant achievement. Cécile Chaminade's charming Aire de Ballet no. 3 from 1925 for piano in Llobet's transcription is a first publication and a most welcome addition to the guitar repertoire by a famous composer. The Berceuse by Villar is a first publication of the version that Llobet used to perform, which is quite different to the UME edition. As a matter of interest, note that our 15-volume edition of Llobet's collected works includes no fewer than 60 first publications.
SKU: M7.GHE-810
ISBN 9783890448107. English.
This new critical edition by leading guitar researcher Erik Stenstadvold contains thematic indexes, comprehensive critical commentaries based on sound and transparent editorial practice, copious historical notes, publishing history, and some previously unpublished repertoire. It has been thoroughly researched and is produced to the highest standards.
SKU: UT.CH-321
ISBN 9790215326293. 9 x 12 inches.
Dediche< /i> is a series of short miniature pieces for solo guitar written in 1991 by Chiara Benati, an authoritative exponent of what can be called the School of Bologna, and who has devoted many pages of her catalogue to the guitar (Chiara won a first prize in 1986 at the Competition for Guitar Composition organized by the historic magazine Il Fronimo).From the point of view of the guitar idiom, it is striking how the compositional research of Chiara Benati (who does not play the guitar) has penetrated deeply into the nature of the instrument. In my job of adding the fingering to the pieces, I started from the precise indications concerning the strings already provided by the Composer, who meticulously imagined the instrumental result created by the play of resonances and the consequent precise distribution of the parts on different strings (let us think of the tremolos superimposed on different strings in the second Dedica and the counterpoint in three parts each written on its own musical stave), with a skilful use of glissandos and other instrumental effects.From the musical point of view, a similar meticulousness in writing is evident, shown, for example, by indicating the temporal separation between the figures by means of their spatial distance indicated in the score.The result is an instrumentally and musically rigorous writing which also helps the performer by appealing to his ability to empathize, following the indications written in the score and in the key, with the expressive atmosphere of the work, and through that specific aspect of controlled performance flexibility and sound sensitivity necessary to render it properly.These delicate miniatures, suffused with mystery and melancholy, and so masterfully written for the guitar, are in my opinion an important addition to the contemporary repertoire of the instrument. (Piero Bonaguri).
SKU: HL.14016124
UPC: 781735807453. 8x9.5 inches.
Get in tune with fast, flexible, PC-based guitar instruction on these four progressive software CD-ROMs. The first disc, Lessons for Guitar, offers a comprehensive guitar primer covering everything from basic technique to musical notation. Swing to the next level with the aptly titled Guitar Improver™, as it reinforces previous lessons – at the same time introducing new fingerstyle and soloing skills. Next, Guitar Songs and Styles™ builds your guitar repertoire from the realm of blues, bluegrass, and country, featuring songs made famous by artists such as Chet Atkins and Johnny Cash. Finally, use a modern CD-ROM approach to arrange your own chord progressions with Chord Miner 1000™, the comprehensive chord catalog and interactive toolbox for novices and serious guitarists alike.From strumming to solos, get into the groove of results-oriented guitar proficiency, with Instant Play Guitar!
SKU: HL.49047483
UPC: 196288300670.
With the latest addition to the Guitar Music Collection series, author and composer Thomas Fellow (including Fellow Guitar Book) offers the most comprehensive and sophisticated selection of works to date in his own modern, stylistically open sound language. Fingerfood XXL Vol. 2 includes several multi-track âsuitesâ as well as longer concert pieces in the style of his üextremely successful first work Medusa. And so fingerstyle influences can be recognized as well as Mediterranean or Brazilian sounds, jazz or pop music - for the greatest joy of playing and intense listening pleasure. As a guitarist who has performed all over the world (European Guitar Quartet, Friend `n Fellow, Hands on Strings), Fellow concludes this issue with his solo arrangement of the 70s classic September by the band Earth, Wind and Fire, a celebrated highlight at many of his concerts. Fingerfood XXL Vol. 2 is aimed at performing guitarists, students and ambitious amateurs. The pieces are all complex, set at a higher level of difficulty (4-5) and offer an ideal addition to the modern guitar repertoire.
SKU: HL.50489495
ISBN 9790080084182. Bach (23 x 30,2 cm) inches. Hungarian, English, German.
This publication is a completely revised edition of our five-volume guitar tutor. In the decades since the first edition, the musical interests of our students and their practice possibilities have changed. To adapt to this, we have partly expanded and partly reduced the musical and technical material of the tutor. We have increased the number of recital pieces at all levels of difficulty, so that our students can spend longer on a varied repertoire at their respective level. We have first of all selected works from the Viennese classics for this purpose but have also enriched the repertoire of the tutor with numerous pieces from the Renaissance and Baroque periods. In volumes I and II of the tutor we have given Hungarian folk songs and children's songs a significant amount of space. In the course of revision, we have expanded the material of these two volumes with simple arrangements of folk songs, nursery rhymes and flower songs, and we have provided very easy, but valuable material for instrumental study in particular for children aged between 6 and 10. We have also expanded the chamber music material to be found at the end of the volumes, because we believe that playing music together is the best way to make instrumental study a lasting experience for our students. The parts are relatively simple, sothe works provide a musical experience almost immediately.
SKU: HL.50487107
ISBN 9790080122815. Bach (23 x 30,2 cm) inches. Erzsebet Nagy; Miklos Mosoczi.
This publication is a completely revised edition of our five-volume guitar tutor. In the decades since the first edition, the musical interests of our students and their practice possibilities have changed. To adapt to this, we have partly expanded and partly reduced the musical and technical material of the tutor. We have increased the number of recital pieces at all levels of difficulty, so that our students can spend longer on a varied repertoire at their respective level. We have first of all selected works from the Viennese classics for this purpose but have also enriched the repertoire of the tutor with numerous pieces from the Renaissance and Baroque periods.
SKU: HL.50487279
ISBN 9790080127353. Bach (23 x 30,2 cm) inches. Hungarian, English, German. Erzsebet Nagy; Miklos Mosoczi.
SKU: HL.50487106
ISBN 9790080122808. Bach (23 x 30,2 cm) inches. Erzsebet Nagy; Miklos Mosoczi.
SKU: HL.48024601
ISBN 9781540050663. UPC: 888680933807. 9.0x12.0 inches.
Beyond the White Hand: Construction with Guitar Player, was commissioned by the Julian Bream Trust and first performed at St John's Smith Square by Andrey Lebedev in 2014. This substantial addition to the advanced solo guitar repertoire reflects and expands upon an earlier miniature from 2007: Guitar and White Hand, Birtwistle’s first piece for the instrument. Both pieces draw artistic inspiration from the artist Pablo Picasso: the smaller piece written for Forbes Henderson and sharing a title with the 1927 painting of the same name. The larger piece was composed in the centenary year of Picasso's Construction with Guitar Player after which the piece is named and the sculpture Guitar.Picasso made about a dozen 'sculptural' constructions’ during 1912-1914, many of which employ recycled or carved elements. A good number of these were destroyed and only one, Still Life was shown publically during his lifetime. Picasso's own Construction with Guitar Player was an installation of a partially drawn and painted figure to which he added arms made of newspaper that fold away from the wall to embrace a real guitar. In the foreground stands a table with a bottle of wine and this was photographed by Picassoin his studio in 1913. Musically, Birtwistle’s Construction is a large scale, dense work of sixteen minutes’ duration. It does not develop linearly, but presents fragments of detail, interruptions, digressions and loops as a “deconstructed guitar†in sound.